Ah, the Ides of March. Better known in some circles as international kill a tyrant day. It was, after all, as we all know, that on this day in the year 44 before our common era that Julius Caesar was murdered, marking one of those moments in history where everything changed.
Or, maybe not so much. It was still the dawn of the end of the Republic. Civil war would break out following the assassination. And as the dust, pooled in blood, settled into a sticky mess, Caesar’s adoptive heir would claim what had become the throne.
And, here we are. Once again in the great cycle we come to the day of the long knives and the end of the man who would be king. Worthy of some thought. Several lessons to be gleaned, I find.
For one, I wish we heed the warnings we’re given by our friends. Worthy of some thought.
And. I wish for all of us that today some tyrant lurking in our hearts dies. And. And I wish things don’t turn out badly, not as they did for that long ago Republic.
May we do better in the great cycle of life and death.
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